TRC community radio

[silentmemory]

First let me say this is unofficial and unsanctioned by WB, and as such may be withdrawn at any point. (WB, I can PM you the account password if you wish.)

What is community radio
In this context it's a radio station influenced by its listeners. We've had a TRC group at lastfm for a while now, it's a streaming music station with a playlist strongly influenced by the musical preferences of its members. That is to say, if you're a lastfm member and join the group, the group radio should start to reflect your personal music tastes.

So what?
Yesterday I created a new lastfm user, therevcounter and subscribed it to the TRC group channel. In theory then, songs listened to by this new user should affect the group, and the group's preferences should affect the music played to our new TRC user.

No really, so what?
We now have a TRC Group radio station available from the TRC Media link in the banner at the top of every page. Listening to this station should effectively log you into lastfm using therevcounter's credentials and play his forum-influenced radio. Note, this is experimental, I've no idea whether or not it's possible for two users to be logged into one account and playing music at the same time.

Lyrics
I've thrown together a web page which should run off and fetch the lyrics for the currently playing track, for bandwidth reasons you'll need to refresh it manually when the song changes if you want to see the new track's lyrics.

Links
TRC group page at lastfm (listen as your own lastfm account)
TRC user page at lastfm
TRC group radio (listen as 'therevcounter')
Lyrics (available while listening to TRC group radio as 'therevcounter' only. Probably best to wait until the second track is playing before clicking, sometimes the service is slow to recognise the stream has started.)
TRC group radio xml link (can be used to listen to the station on remote devices such as the xbox 360 and PS3)

Summary
I appreciate that, for some, this will be too complicated to bother with, but if you do get it then please do join lastfm and subscribe to the TRC group, it should make for a better station for everyone.

As always, your comments are welcomed.